Review of Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder: How Bad Science and Good Public Relations Created the Diagnosis, by Stuart L. Kaplan

摘要

When A raging child is brought for the first appointment with a child and adolescent psychiatrist or other clinician with the question of "does my child have bipolar disorder," the response is often quite polarized. On the one hand, there is the view that "bipolar disorder" is common, and, therefore, that it is more than likely that an explosive child has it. The other view is considerable skepticism indicated by a suppressed "eye roll." The thesis set forth in Kaplan's Your Child Does Not Have Bipolar Disorder will resonate with clinicians who have observed this.